Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Kilmolruy, eccles. Minginish, BRL (Skye)
Grid reference
NG 375 259 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
137500 825900
Latitude
57.248468237959365
Longitude
-6.35233061856411
Altitude (metres)
10
County
Inverness-shire
Nearby places
Minginish, former parish, Bracadale (Skye) (0 miles)
Cnoc Mhàirtein, Bracadale (Skye) (6.54 miles)
Bracadale, parish (8.1 miles)
St Assind's Chapel, Bracadale (Skye) (8.1 miles)
Creag Dhonnachaidh, Boleskine & Abertarff (9.51 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
There are the remains of two church buildings here, one of probably eighteenth-century date, one smaller and earlier. A fifteenth- or sixteenth-century font was found here, and a fragment of a cross-shaft and some fine decorated grave-slabs (NMRS).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Bracadale, parish
Within Minginish, former parish, Bracadale (Skye) (formerly)
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kilmolruy
Head name
Kilmolruy
Place
Kilmolruy, eccles. Minginish, BRL (Skye)
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Kilmolruy 1630, Geog. Coll. II
Historic formKilmolruy Head nameKilmolruy PlaceKilmolruy, eccles. Minginish, BRL (Skye) Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceGeog. Coll. II, 583 Date of citation1630 x 1630 |
Source code
Geog. Coll. II
Source title
Macfarlane's Geographical Collections
Editors
Arthur Mitchell (Sir)
Series
Scottish History Society
Volume
2 of 3
Historic formKilmolruy Head nameKilmolruy PlaceKilmolruy, eccles. Minginish, BRL (Skye) Certainty that this name applies to this placePossible SourceBlaeu, Skye Date of citation1654 x 1654 |
Source code
Blaeu
Source title
Atlas Novus
Editors
and publisher: Johan Blaeu
Year
1654
Saints in this place-name
Máel Ruba (ns) (certain)
Máel Ruba m Elganaig of Applecross (certain)
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